Quasinormal modes and thermodynamic phase transitions

Emanuele Berti and Vitor Cardoso
Phys. Rev. D 77, 087501 – Published 11 April 2008

Abstract

It has recently been suggested that scalar, Dirac, and Rarita-Schwinger perturbations are related to thermodynamic phase transitions of charged (Reissner-Nordström) black holes. In this Brief Report we show that this result is probably a numerical coincidence, and that the conjectured correspondence does not straightforwardly generalize to other metrics, such as Kerr or Schwarzschild (anti–)de Sitter. Our calculations do not rule out a relation between dynamical and thermodynamical properties of black holes, but they suggest that such a relation is nontrivial.

  • Received 13 February 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.087501

©2008 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Emanuele Berti*

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, USA

Vitor Cardoso

  • Centro Multidisciplinar de Astrofísica - CENTRA, Dept. de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal, and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677-1848, USA

  • *berti@wugrav.wustl.edu
  • vcardoso@fisica.ist.utl.pt

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Vol. 77, Iss. 8 — 15 April 2008

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